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John Updike's Early Years de Jack De Bellis

John Updike's Early Years

Autor Jack De Bellis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 ian 2013
John Updike's Early Years first examines his family, then places him in the context of the Depression and World War II. Relying upon interviews with former classmates, the next chapters examine Updike's early life and leisure activities, his athletic ability, social leadership, intellectual prowess, comical pranks, and his experience with girls. Two chapters explore Updike's cartooning and drawing, and the last chapter explains how he modeled his characters on his schoolmates. Lists of Updike's works treating Pennsylvania, and a compilation of contributions to his school paper are included, along with profiles of all students, faculty and administrators during his years at Shillington High School.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611461305
ISBN-10: 1611461308
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 8 BW Photos
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lehigh University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Author's Notes on Citations and Abbreviations
List of Short Titles and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Updike's Early Years: Background
Chapter 2: Personal
Chapter 3: Leisure
Chapter 4: Athletics
Chapter 5: Clowning
Chapter 6: Girls and Women
Chapter 7: Chatterbox: Cartooning and Drawing
Chapter 8: Chatterbox: Poetry and Prose
Chapter 9: Inspirations and Models
Appendix A:Updike Chronology
Appendix B:Updike's Published Writings Set in Pennsylvania
Appendix C: Updike's Contributions to The Little Shilling and Chatterbox
Appendix D: Updike's Shillington Classmates, Faculty, and Administrators
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Recenzii

This book is an enjoyable must for any reader or researcher of Updike's work. Appendix B, "Updike's Published Writings Set in Pennsylvania," provides an exhaustive inventory of what readers gather intuitively: Updike's experience and interpretation of his home territory and people from birth through his first years away at Harvard set the patterns of his fictive human interactions and values. Until the midpoint of his life (with Couples, set in Massachusetts), Updike found in Shillington-Plowville-Reading, Pennsylvania, and environs inspiration for the situations and characters of his creations. Aided by Silcox in Shillington, De Bellis contacted, over the years, many of Updike's friends from childhood and adolescence. This, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of Updike, allowed De Bellis to identify scores of fictive actions and characters whose starting points Updike found among his family members, friends, teachers, and acquaintances in small-town Pennsylvania. In the text and the third (of four) appendixes, the author describes Updike's contributions to The Little Shilling and Chatterbox (both school papers) and describes how Updike's mother deliberately guided her son's cultivation of graphic and verbal art, and how Updike himself completed his apprenticeship in basically realist observation and production in these local school publications. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.
The prominence of Jack de Bellis as and Updike bibliographer sets the tone for his John Updike's Early Years. . . . Updike published massive amounts of student writing during his high school years and was welcomed early on to the Harvard Lampoon, where his initial cartoon work was soon superseded by his literary contributions. . . .From these circumstances, Updike developed a new fiction of manners in which lyrical concerns with language often carried his themes.
One can hardly imagine a more deeply researched or fascinating account of John Updike's beginnings, and how his experiences were gradually transmogrified into major American fiction. Jack De Bellis has done a splendid job here, and I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in fiction, especially in the postwar years in America. It's a splendid achievement.